Improvement in hair-curling apparatus



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MARCIA ADKrNs, or o stvvueo, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 92,926, dated Jah; 27, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAIR-QURLING- APPARATUS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Mrs. MARCIA ADKINS, of Oswego, in the county of Oswego, and State of New York, have invented a new and improved Hair-Curliu'g Apparatus; and I do hereby declare that the following is a' full, clear, and exact description thereof', which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part 'of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in haircurling implements.

lt consists in the application, to a hollow-heating and curling-mandreL/of a combing, pressing, and Tspirally-laying apparatus, as hereinafter more fully speciiied.

of my improved device.

Figure 2 represents a transverse section, taken on the line :1r-x of iig. 1.

Figure 1 represents an elevation, partly sectioned,

Similar letters 'of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents a hollow tapered heating and windingmandrel, through the handle of which, at B, the-heating-iron is inserted.

0 represents a helical band of metal, the bore of which is considerablv larger than the mandrel Whereon the hair is to be laid.

This coiled band carries at one end a spring-pad, 1),.

of any suitable smoothing-substance, and a comb, E, the teeth of which stand radially from the centre.

F represents a guide-pin, connected to the mandrel near the small end, but removable therefrom.

For curling a bunch of hair, the spiral band is adj usted on the mandrel with the comb aud spring-pad, near the pin F. The bunch of hair is tied to the latter, passed under the springpad, and through the comb.

The spiral band is then turned to the right, screwing on to the mandrel, drawing the hair through the comb under the brush, and laying it in regular spiral coils ou the mandrel, which, being heated, forms the hair (which is allowed to remain a suicient length of time on the mandrel) into the desired curl.' The latter is removed by withdrawing the pin, slipping off the spiralband, and then the curl.

In thisway the curls maybe very rapidly and perfectly formed.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the heating and winding- Inandrel A, of the spiral band O, spring-pad D, comb E, and guide-pin F,-substantially as specified.

The above specification of my -invention signed by me, this 19th day of April, ,1869.

MRS MARCIA ADKINS.

Witnesses:

N. W. VULLEN, A. R. STEVENS. 

